Posts by norburybrook

Quote from stratology

YES.

ha.... that's a big yes then from at least one of you.

M

Quote from pamplemousse

That still remains very acceptable for playing ODS tones, so thanks Marcus and PayPal for making these profiles reach me that easily, and I don’t mind these few € more spent in conversion

Yeah thanks Kemper too

thanks. I've edited some of typo's out of the web site now so all in all it's looking and working well.
https://norburybrook.bigcartel.com/

M

Quote from paults

With your new cart, the PayPal conversion fee is only $1.00 for USA users.

well at least that's better than $3

Marcus

I'm hoping doing it this way that you guys will pay less as there won't be the extra fee's your end. I get the same money as before

it also looks more 'pro' so hopefully a win win.

M

it does. Order sent

M

OK, with the great help of Chris Milne. I think I now have a shop. I've had to upgrade to business accounts etc so the pricing has gone up .50 however I think there should now be less fees at your end.

https://norburybrook.bigcartel.com/

hope this works.

let's see who will be first.

M

Quote from flyingheelhook

Is GBP the proper currency to send? Sorry, I am not versed in other countries' currency.

yes it is.

M

Quote from CJGOMEZ

conversion rates from euros to pounds too. About two euros. Many buyers may be from Europe or the States, so we may be handing out some dough when you do the maths. That won't happen when using PayPal through a shop. Some credit cards also charge conversion rates. Anyway, no serious complaint here. I'll try the profiles today. I've never played a real Dumble, so I won't be able to judge how close they are to the real thing, but I have some Dumble or Dumble -clone profiles already, and I think both profiles and the real Dumbles can vary a lot. Not to mention the players being different. Carlton, Bonamassa etc sound all great but very different.

the profiling process is the thing that makes or breaks the end profile. Your mic choice, placement , blend etc are crucial. It's exactly the same as if you were recording the amp except you cant use distant room mics. You could take a great amp into a poor studio or with a poor engineer and you'll get a poor sounding result.

I will look into a shop/web site as I have 4 other amps in my collection I will eventually profile.

M

I've a feeling this charge is new as I hadn't had anyone comment before when I released the JM pack. To add a basic 'shop' to a web site costs about $15/month here in the UK on top of the usual costs. I'd paid up front for 3 years with iconosites only to find they went bust and lost my money and my site recently!!

M

I think even if I had time to set up a web site the shop side would probably use paypal anyway so there might still be the same issue.

I wasn't aware of a separate $3 currency charge until recently. Obviously I loose on my end as well as Paypal take a cut of the money you send as a charge to me unless it was friends and family but 99% didn't do it that way hence I stopped it this time.

At some point I need to get my web site back up and running and include a shop. I'm on the road at the moment touring and have had a busy year up to now so just haven't had the time. I thought it better to get the profiles out this was as it seemed to work fine for the JM pack, there was the odd bit of confusion but apart from no one using friends and family it worked

if anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears, as they say.

Marcus

ut of curiosity, would the people who have bought this profile be interested in other 'Dumble ' amps?kemper-amps.com/wbb/attachment/6518/

this is my next candidate.

1970's ODS #40 the kind of amp used by David Lindley

50w combo. Alnico speaker. great amp.

Marcus

Quote from Mats_Nermark

I have now played these profiles for a number of hours. How many hours? I can't tell as I got lost in time just enjoying them.

I've been in love with Dumble amps since I first tried Christopher Cross' Dumble back in 1986 and since then I've been privileged to play a few real Dumbles and a large number of closes and amps derived from the ODS concept.

I have also been profiling a lot of these kinds of amps as well as helping Michael Britt when he profiled a Dumble for his shop.

My experience is that it's very easy to get a boomy profile even though it sound right at the time of profiling.

Marcus' profiles are just what I want from a Dumble style amp.
The cleans are powerful and dynamic and the top end is just sooo sweet. People tend to overlook the clean capabilities of the ODS. That's a huge mistake!
Usually I have to tame my guitars with the tone knob, but not here. The compressions settings Marcus has in his rigs are just right for the Lollars in my Collings I-35LC. The cleans also have great sustain. It feels almost like playing an overdriven sound but it's still clean. Wonderful! It also lends itself very well to putting a Green Scream in from of it for some sublime dirt. Love it!

Of course, the ODS is most known for it's overdrive sounds, and rightly so. Marcus has captured the ODS personality in a great way. There are many shades of gain here and, just like the original, if you have a lot of gain and set it up for a bridge humbucker, it's usually too bassy and fat for the neck HB in the same guitar. But I usually put the Graphic EQ in front of the profile and take away quite a bit of the low end before the signal hits "the amp" and then the neck HB is very useful.

I would especially encourage every buyer of this pack to try to set the volume pedal to "Input" as it then works almost as a remote gain pedal for the overdrive. There is a world of nuance to be found working a volume pedal this way and if you're a dynamic player used to coaxing different tones using pick attack, this can lead to sonic nirvana.

I was planning to play the profiles with many different guitar before writing anything, but I just keep getting such enjpoyment with the I-35LC that I just have not seen fit to stop playing it yet.

I you, like me, like the Dumble sound, then this is definitely a pack for you.

Cheers,

Mats N

PS to Marcus - if you read this and don't like comments in your thread, please let me know and I'll delete it.

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Matts,

thankyou very much for your wonderful 'review' . Of course I don't mind, I couldn't have written it better myself. They are special amps and as you say unless you've played them it can be hard to explain what they do. Let me also add they're not for everyone, they can sometimes be 'difficult' as they are not an amp that flatters you as a player, they make you work, but that's a good thing IMHO.

I really honestly think this pack is as close as you'll ever be able to get at the moment, to playing through my amp and speakers.
As you can see I have no web site or any fancy advertising, just great profiles of great amps and I'm going to keep doing this to the best of my ability.

once again thanks Matts for your honest appraisal. I do not know him or have any affiliation so this is a really 'honest' review.

Marcus

profiles sent

thankyou.

M

the ODS is not a twin channel amp. The OD is a continuation of the clean channel , it's fed into an extra gain stage to give the OD, which is why the Dumble amp is sometimes hard to dial in as it's not twin channels so what ever you do eq wise to the clean always affects the OD sound. The 'HRM' added on some models was a way of Dumble trying to get around this by adding a separate tone stack for the OD.

Also John Mayer never used an ODS, he used a Wonderland (Dumbleland) or SSS, Larry Carlton's ODS is Bluesmaster, the Marshall rather than fender based circuit , I can't remember what Keith had but they're all very different amps.

M

Quote from d7mcfc

Payment sent. If it is half as good as the last pack, it will be money well spent.

thank you. As I said previously I really don't know how it could be done any better. I had a PM from someone this morning saying my profiles have a level realism that they haven't found on other profiles.

M

Quote from digbob

tell us a bit more bout the joey landreth profiles please
how and when they are done etc

its a 100w bluesmaster amp that was mine but Eric Clapton's/van morrisons ex guitarist tried it and wouldn't give in until I sold it to him. Joey Landreth was staying at his house last year and he fell in love with it too so used it in London. I'd taken just one set of sweet spot profiles. So clean, clean plus boost, Overdrive and overdrive plus boost. into the same EVM 12 cab you see in the video. Mic'd with a SM57 and a Sontronics Orpheus LDC. I thought I'd throw them in as a little incentive to the first 100 people as a gift there's also the same sweet spot profiles of another Dumble amp the same guitarist owns.

there is still time to be in the first 100

Marcus

thankyou

here's nice 'review' from Aziz.

For what it's worth, these are like sounside profiles in their format. Raw profiles at different amp settings, which I like a lot. I locked a cab and a stack of post effects before going through them, volume level is fine, and you have good margin to adjust definition parameter. They sound as good as Mbritt or Tonejunkie stuff and clean up well with guitar's volume knob. Excellent for this price

Thinking about it, I honestly cannot say how I could have done any better with this pack. Seriously there's no weak link in either my Microphones, equipment, technique and last and mot importantly the amp. HAving made the decision to only use this amp on my Album I really had to find the best way to get everything out of it. That experience gave me all I needed to pass this on by way of profiling.

Marcus

Quote from danel59

Great profiles! The album is good too. The profiles with the Dumbleator are great. Has the vocal quality and strain, chewiness associated with those amps. Still experimenting with the pack but well worth it if you are looking for Dumble tones

thanks, I've tried as hard as I could to get the best out of the profiling process. It's actually a lot of work to do well.

let me say the 'Dumble' amp can be hard work to get the best out of, it doesn't flatter you in anyway you have to work it, the profiles seem to have that too which is great for you guys

thanks for the kind words on the album. for any Dutch speakers out there apparently this is a great review.

https://www.bluesmagazine.nl/recensie-marcus-cliffe-heard/

Marcus

Quote from Mats_Nermark

Payment sent!
Looking forward to some dynamic goodness.

Cheers,

Mats N

thanks Mats. Profiles sent.

M

thanks everyone. The orders that came in through the night have now all been sent out.

I'll add, the profiles are 'raw' . There's a compressor in slot A and a delay and reverb so I'd probably use those in a studio/live situation. The sounds on the album are dry from the amp with some compression/EQ delay/reverb added in the studio. All these things you can do with the Kemper but I thought it best to have the best basic sound and you can do with it as you please. It is a very versatile amplifier and covers a lot of sonic possibities in one amp.

M